Is a Pres Trump a threat or a promise

By Ted Belman

Daniel Pipes recently quit the GOP because it nominated Trump. Many of my colleagues in the right wing blogosphere agreed saying he speaks for most Jews. Then Pipes posted a column on the blowback he received.

I replied that he and most Jews are wrong.  I was quite surprised how hard nosed some of them were in rejecting Trump expecting Trump to kiss their asses or at least their ring.

I replied:

The primaries are over. The train has left the station, whether you were on board or not. Just as every candidate for the nomination agreed to support the victor, so should you all.

The issue is not whether Trump will support what you want but whether you will support what the vast majority of Trump supporters want.
Besides, Trump has the best chance of winning. That’s why we voted for him. The GOP was a big disappointment as the loyal opposition. We don’t want them to call the shots.

I decided to highlight those parts of the speech that I really liked. I might add that he made no mention of the threat of global warming or the environment which I appreciated.

In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map. Libya was stable. Egypt was peaceful. Iraq had seen a big reduction in violence. Iran was being choked by sanctions. Syria was somewhat under control.

After four years of Hillary Clinton, what do we have? ISIS has spread across the region and the entire world. Libya is in ruins, and our ambassador and his staff were left helpless to die at the hands of savage killers. Egypt was turned over to the radical Muslim Brotherhood, forcing the military to retake control. Iraq is in chaos. Iran is on the path to nuclear weapons. Syria is engulfed in a civil war and a refugee crisis that now threatens the West. After 15 years of wars in the Middle East, after trillions of dollars spent and thousands of lives lost, the situation is worse than it has ever been before.
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Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo
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I am the law and order candidate.
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I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology.
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We must abandon the failed policy of nation- building and regime change that Hillary Clinton pushed in Iraq, Libya, in Egypt, and Syria.
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We must work with all of our allies who share our goal of destroying ISIS and stamping out Islamic terrorism and doing it now, doing it quickly. We’re going to win. We’re going to win fast. This includes working with our greatest ally in the region, the state of Israel.
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Lastly, and very importantly, we must immediately suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism until such time as proven vetting mechanisms have been put in place. We don’t want them in our country.

I only want to admit individuals into our country who will support our values and love our people. Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in our country and never ever will be.
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We are going to build a great border wall to stop illegal immigration, to stop the gangs and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities.
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Americans want relief from uncontrolled immigration
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Then we are going to deal with the issue of regulation, one of the greatest job killers of them all. Excessive regulation is costing our country as much as $2 trillion a year, and we will end it very quickly.
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We are going to lift the restrictions on the production of American energy. This will produce more than $20 trillion in job-creating economic activity over the next four decades.

Our steelworkers and our miners are going back to work again.
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We will repeal and replace disastrous Obamacare.
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July 23, 2016 | 94 Comments »

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  1. watsa46 Said:

    It will be said that Trump used every loopholes available in the books.

    In other words he follows the letter of the laws made by the pols like hillary, cruz, rubio,sanders,kaine, etc

  2. yamit82 Said:

    How come 3 out of 4 of my comments is in moderation Ted?

    I should think you were as Moses at the Red Sea ! Wave your rod over the pundit.

  3. @ watsa46:

    I disagree the most he can hope for is some additions at the margins in those groups. He needs to increase the white vote and try to get union memebers to cross over despite the leadership suppport for Hitlery, His model should go for whites independents and as mnay democrat crossovers as possible the ethnic minorities he won’t attract in sufficient numbers so why waste money and time on them allow as many as possible to stay home….. A large republican and independet turnout for Trumps will compensate for loss of ethic votes.

  4. @ LtCol Howard:

    I was with Trump from the beginning… I think I might have voted for a Clinton rather than see another Bush in office and there is nothing ideological in my sentiment…The Bush family has been the most corrupt and historically the least patriotic than all modern presidents. They have also been the most inept.

    Of the other pygmies the republicans put ;were at best very flawed and all were uninspiring.

    None but Trump addressed the most relevant and most critical problems facing America today. None mentioned the debt of almost 20 trillion dollars but Trump……I cringed many times with his lack of knowledge and handle on specifics that Trump presented in the debates and interviews but I did see that the guy had good instincts which for me “Trumped” lack of specific and deep knowledge on most subjects broached.

    I believe Trump above all is a patriot and won’t be bought or bribed by special interests. I don’t think he is an ideologue therefore will be free to pursue Max pragmatism WRT domestic and foreign policies….

    Globalism is proving to be a failed model enriching the most wealthy at the expense of all others and only big corporations…..

    The visions of small government and fiscal conservatism is a model for unemployment and depression….. entitlements? Have the government replace all the money they looted from the Trust fund beginning with Reagan.. No money well then print some more and replace what they stole. Trump is right that he will not touch entitlements.

    In short I am excited to see the possibility of a non ideological, pragmatic, patriotic candidate with great instincts running and hopefully winning the presidency…. All the rest is inconsequential…… if he succeeds to surround himself with good dynamic clear thinking appointments and advisors.

  5. yamit82 Said:

    For once I intend to agree with you.

    OMG the Millennium is upon us !!!!!!!!!!!!! As I write mountains are tumbling in to the seas and the Sun is rotating in the Sky.!!!!!!!!!! oy

  6. @ Economist:

    For once I intend to agree with you. Non-degreed Americans I belive have more common sense and much better and honed insticts for survival.

    Clinton cash coming out in next few days and i understand it will be put on You Tube. I believe it will have an impact with independents and those sitting on the fence making it a binary choice not ideological……

    Trump is no angel and I know he has close ties with the Mafia but to get anything done in construction there is no choice.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AM8ikJkeuY

  7. Ted Belman Said:

    I received this comment from Paul Schnee.

    Ted Belman Said:

    I was hoping that Ted Cruz, as well as all the other former presidential aspirants, would be as magnanimous and follow Churchill’s example

    I am amazed that supporters failed to see this rather obvious character flaw in Cruz.

  8. @ Ted Belman:
    Extremism from Lt or Rt is a NO, NO.
    Trump should be considered as a Modern Conservative.
    Trump should focus his campaign on three groups: women, Black and Hispanics. They can count on him.
    For example: a “Marshall plan” for the REAL victims of slavery.

  9. It will be said that Trump used every loopholes available in the books. Hilary navigates far away, above and beyond the law. She floats in “Legal weightlessness!

  10. I received this comment from Paul Schnee.

    Senator Cruz was by far my first choice. Donald Trump was not even on my radar screen. However, now that Trump is the nominee I fully support him. I was appalled at Cruz’s convention speech and disappointed that for the sake of unity, let alone victory, he was unable to put the extreme bitterness of the primaries behind him.

    Those Republicans who think they are too conservatively pure, too honorable, too well-educated, too sophisticated, too morally principled, too well-informed about public policy or even too polite to support Donald Trump are indulging a costly form of sanctimony that will not only lose us the White House but also the Supreme Court for more than a generation to come.

    During the lead up to WWII Winston Churchill had been a noisy and devastating critic of his own party to the extent that the Conservative Central Office prevailed upon the leadership of the constituency he represented to dump him from the Conservative ticket whilst John Reith, the director of the BBC, did all he could to muzzle Winston by keeping him off of the airwaves.

    When members of his own party saw Churchill, his wife or members of his family in the streets of London they crossed the street rather than speak to them and when Churchill rose to speak in the House he was often greeted with far more cheers from the opposition party than from his own. Nevertheless, on June 18th. 1940 in one of his most famous speeches after becoming the prime minister he generously noted, “…..if we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”

    I was hoping that Ted Cruz, as well as all the other former presidential aspirants, would be as magnanimous and follow Churchill’s example. If they are unable to do so then the rest of us certainly need to, either that or stiffen our spines in order to face the sure, rebarbative and entirely miserable prospect of a President Hillary Clinton. National suicide does not commend itself to me.

  11. @ LtCol Howard:
    Like several of my professional colleagues, this American Jewish PhD Economist plans to vote for Trump on the merits, not “the lesser of two evils”.. The rumors of only imperfectly educated blue collar support are Democrat sour grapes. For the record I do not expect a close election.

  12. Bear Klein Said:

    They are close.

    Trump has not yet begun to expose, or have others expose, Hillary’s crimes… that is not factored into the polls which are simply a static point, at the now, with no consideration of relevant factors. that is why the polls never predicted Trumps massive landslide in the primary with everyone dropping out before the convention. If the GOP primary is any indication the general will be a landslide.
    Bear Klein Said:

    Virginia is probably going Dem now that Hillary picked Kaine for VP.

    True, but the hillary Mcauliffe fraud to get felons the vote was just struck down. Some folks in VA might not take kindly to the fact that the dems need felons voting to win, or illegal immigrants voting to win. VA is one of the muslim immigrant dumping ground and dint VA tech ahve a mass shooting? The dems only sure voters are felons, illegals and welfare folks and I am not sure of the last either. The potential of hillary exposures relentlessly over months, coupled with more muslim atrocities will improve Trumps chances.
    Bear Klein Said:

    Turn out will matter big-time.

    so far, turnout appears to favor Trump.
    Bear Klein Said:

    Assuming Trump does lose Virginia he will need to win Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania

    I got a “feeling” its going to be a Trump landslide… the past trends point to upsets and Trump improvement of his position. I see no area for hillary improvement as time goes on.

  13. @ honeybee:No Bears in Texas. They might come though because California the Bear State has taxes that are way too high. Yet the pools, beaches, mountains with good skiing and great Mexican food is hard to ignore.

  14. Battleground states:

    Florida (29), Iowa (6), New Hampshire (4), Nevada (6), Pennsylvania (20), Ohio (18), Virginia (13), North Carolina (15) (111 electoral college votes total).

    These are the states that will decide the election. They are close. Virginia is probably going Dem now that Hillary picked Kaine for VP. Trump is very slightly up or tied in Florida & Ohio. Slightly up in N.C. Very Slightly behind in the other states. Either candidate however could win any of these states. Turn out will matter big-time.

    Assuming Trump does lose Virginia he will need to win Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania to win the election in a very close election. Doable but not easy.

  15. Bear Klein Said:

    Getting Mexico to say here we will send a check or wire transfer for a billion dollars is not going to happen.

    right, you have to take it out of their left pocket when they’re not looking.

  16. what’s curious to me is that no one even values the fact that Trump is the only one of the pols with any real experience with the real costs of things and how to cut costs. He has demonstrated what we all already know… that pols enormously and corruptly overspend our money on everything. He comes in under time and under budget on projects he took over from corrupt pols who are incompetent. That one ability alone can work miracles if he is able to get past the corrupt civil service who will seek to block him at every step. Luckily, Trump has another valuable talent for getting things done: bulldozing over the crooks and obstructionists without mercy… I am looking forward to seeing him deal with some of those folks now sitting cushy on their gov appts. I would like to see him find a way to do an overall purge of all political appts on the basis that the positions were corruptly given… and replace them with competent human beings. No one else would even consider such a task. Trump offers many unforeseen positive possibilities because he is an outsider who is a competent achiever. I am so sick of hearing all those whiny pol BS artists.
    Frankly, I think it would have been better had he not sought to much reconciliation with the GOP establishment crooks and hacks nor chosen Pence who is too establishment and does not really embrace Trump platforms. If trump dies or is incapacitated we have Pence as president, which is nice for ideological conservatives and the GOP establishment but I would never vote for him as pres.

  17. Bear Klein Said:

    Don’t think people are really grasping how plausible it is that Trump could become president.

    LOL, Nate needs to hang around some other “people”….. many saw this coming….it appears that the people he refers do not have good judgement or good prognoses skills. Nothing “trumps” good judgment.

  18. Bear Klein Said:

    Did you know Israeli biologists are saving the bees in the world that have been dying. So Israel is pro Bee!

    No Bears in Texas to raid the hive.

  19. @ bernard ross:The simple way for the wall being payed for is the USA will stop giving Mexico foreign aid. Getting Mexico to say here we will send a check or wire transfer for a billion dollars is not going to happen.

    I believe two years ago the US Congress approved paying for the wall but all the monies have not been allocated. Trump needs no new legislation to build the wall he just has to see that the money is budgeted. He could say the monies that were for Mexican aid will now be transferred to the wall.

  20. honeybee Said:

    Mexico is scare of losing revenue from remittances. The USA is Mexico’s social welfare system.

    folks joke about how he will make mexico pay for the wall, but there are so many ways: cut their aid by that amount, add a tax on mex entries, etc etc etc. Under the dems and the gop there appear to be no solutions, only a continuation of their agreed agenda. I consider Trump neither a dem nor a republican which is why he can satisfy my agenda. If he were speaking the typical GOP and conservative platforms I would have no interest in him. Bush, rubio and cruz represent all the things I would not vote for except one or two. Trump is a populist pragmatic who is uninterested in ideologies of left or right, he just wants to solve problems and get things done… most of the rest when they are not busy stealing or feeding at the trough are spouting ideologies…… which for me is an immediate disqualification because ideologues will dismiss a solution which does not fit their pre arranged ideology.

  21. Top Political forecaster and statistician of 538.com Nate Silver just tweeted this. He has a leftist orientation but is very statistically and impartial when doing his forecasts.

    Nate Silver ?@NateSilver538 13h13 hours ago

    Don’t think people are really grasping how plausible it is that Trump could become president. It’s a close election right now.
    8,623 retweets 6,357 likes

  22. bernard ross Said:

    oh look, not even in office yet and the mex pres wants to talk. All those who spoke their insults will have to come back and eat crow

    Mexico is scare of losing revenue from remittances. The USA is Mexico’s social welfare system.

  23. AS a member of the great unwashed out here in the hinterland, I have supported Trump from his first opening statement. He spoke to my though as no politician has ever spoken.
    Bush, is to tied up with oil and the Saudis. Romney, a good looking empty suit. Walker, is the kid that always gets the wedgie in gym clase. Rubio needs to shave first then run for President. Cruz, oil again besides he’s a mean vengeful and a Canadian.
    Trump, like him or not” tienne Cajones “, which this country is sorely in need.

  24. My wife Stefi and I — along with about 80% of the people with whom I associate or work — have supported Donald /trump for the presidency right from the day he announced his intentions back in early summer 2015. We aren’t supporting him because he is running against Hillary Clinton. We are supporting him because we think he is the only American leader who fully understands the multiple threats facing the American nation and the United States of America, and who also fully understands the steps needed to be taken to restore the once-great status of this country.

    As for Jewish intellectuals, unless they support either or both Jewish nationalism and/or American nationalism, we have no use for them whatsoever. We have our Tora, and we have our Constitution of the United States of America. We never have needed any Daniel Pipes to interpret for us the one or the other.

    Arnold Harris, Outspeaker

  25. Conservatives and People who want a safe USA and are tired of a stagnant economy should vote for Trump because of the upcoming Supreme Court Appointments plus the following:

    1. Taxes. Trump’s tax plan lowers tax rates even lower than Reagan. FANTASTIC! PASSES THE CONSERVATIVE TEST.

    2. Regulations. As a businessman I think regulations are even worse than taxes. Our entire economy and middle class jobs have been decimated by Obama’s regulations. Trump is a businessman. He hates regulations. He’ll dramatically reduce and cut regulations and regulatory agencies (like the EPA) in order to get the economy moving again. FANTASTIC! PASSES THE CONSERVATIVE TEST.

    3. ObamaCare. Trump wants to repeal and replace Obamacare and give Americans more health freedom. FANTASTIC! PASSES THE CONSERVATIVE TEST.

    4. Build the wall, secure the border and end sanctuary cities. Need I say more- this is Trump’s signature issue. His views on illegal immigration define perfection. If he does nothing as president but stop the flow of illegal immigration, he’ll be remembered as an American hero. Just this one point can save the American economy from bankruptcy, ruin and crippling debt crisis. FANTASTIC! PASSES THE CONSERVATIVE TEST.

    5. Stop the insanity of allowing in thousands of Syrian refugees and Muslim migrants. Why is this so important? So that we don’t become the EU- bankrupt, suffering crime and rape epidemics, and experiencing nonstop terrorist attacks. This view isn’t just conservative- it’s commonsense and self-preservation. FANTASTIC! PASSES THE CONSERVATIVE TEST.

    6. Always “America First.” Every single policy- domestic, foreign, trade and immigration- should be based on what’s best for America, American citizens, American taxpayers, and American jobs. I’ve waited my entire life to hear these words come out of a potential president’s mouth. The only job of an American president is to take care of America and Americans first, second, third and forever. How can you get more patriotic or conservative than that? FANTASTIC! PASSES THE CONSERVATIVE TEST.

    http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/05/09/my-fellow-republicans-if-dont-vote-for-trump-should-never-be-trusted-again.html

  26. @ LtCol Howard:
    What you posted was very good. Bottom Line for me is if I boil it down to a couple of important items to me.

    Trump may not be perfect however the choice is binary.
    Trump is Pro Israel, pro USA security, for lowering taxes, and reducing the heavy burden of regulations the government has put on business.

    Hillary is for Jew free zones in Israel (Jerusalem & Judah/Samaria) to accommodate the PLO desires. She is for allowing large numbers of Syrians refugees into the USA which undoubtedly leads to more terrorists infiltrating the USA. She is for higher taxes and more regulations.

    Choices are not perfect but clear.

  27. This was written by one of my mentors:

    My decision to support Trump is very reluctant. I never ever thought I would endorse Trump. There were literally dozens of people such as Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio that I would have vastly preferred, But the choices are Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. [ I compare this to being trapped on the 56 floor of the World Trade Center while the flames are closing in on me and I have to make the choice: do I wait for a lingering suffocating/burning death or do I opt for for a more sudden death by jumping.)

    1. The bottom line is simple. The choice is Hillary Clinton and an unstoppable troika of Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Hillary Clinton OR Donald Trump surrounded by competent and stable people who can limit him in his actions. .

    2. Those that urge sitting on their hands and/or abandoning Donald Trump will help destroy our country as we know it……If conservatives sulk and talk about maintaining the purity of conservative ideals we will lose the current, the near future ,and the distant future for several generations.

    Attacks on Donald Trump will result in a generation or more of extreme left-wing US government .

    If Clinton is elected it is likely that the Democrats will gain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Then, it is likely that Chuck Schumer will be the leader of the Senate and Nancy Pelosi will be the speaker the house. In that case this trio would be uncontrollable and jam things through. There would be no checks or balances. We would have multiple repeats of the Obama care and Iran nuclear deal steamrollers.

    We will face a very tilted liberal Supreme Court that will last for generations; a very left-wing District and Circuit Court system which will last for generations; a regulation and control oriented bureaucratic establishment dominating the all of the federal regulatory agencies {EPA, FCC,Etc,Etc].

    3. Strong. Trump supporters such as Sean Hannity do not speak for the Republican Party. Strong Trump opponents do not speak for the Republican Party. What speaks for the Republican Party are thousands of gatherings which hash out various issues and decide to move on some of them.

    The idea of the big tent should be emphasized. If the Republican Party remains a big tent with room for a pro-choice candidate such as Rudy Giuliani and a strong advocate of pro-life like Ted Cruz then the Republican Party will prosper. If they bicker and take the position, “my way or the highway” they will lose out to the politics of individual greed.

    The only thing that can destroy the Republican Party is those Republican stalwarts who believe that they have the pure gospel and that only their way, 100%, is satisfactory. What they should understand is that under the Republicans most of these conservative elements will get SOME of what they advocate for but under a Democratic administration each of these elements will get ABSOLUTELY ZERO and that getting something “(maybe 10%) is infinitely larger than zero.

    4. What should responsible unhappy Republicans do?

    THE BEST STRATEGY IS ….WIN FIRST…. THEN KEEP FIGHTING… PUSH FOR SELECTED PROGRAMS .

    There is much you and your associates can and should do to preserve the United States of America and the Republican Party.

    Do not abandon the battlefield. Embrace and surround Trump with competent people and with useful policy ideas that can prevail for the good of the country.

    If Trump is elected is likely that the house and the Senate will remain Republican. Both House and Senate would have responsible Republican leadership. To get something through Republicans would have to be united and gain Democratic votes. This means that there is a reasonable chance of control of an unreasonable Donald Trump while there is no chance of control of an unreasonable Hillary Clinton.

    A president brings in approximately 3000 appointees. Instead of fighting Trump, the intellectual wing of the Republican Party should do exactly what they did when they strongly influenced Trump’s possible Supreme Court appointee list. This pool should be flooded with qualified people who are at least sympathetic and supportive of basic Republican aims. These explicit aims should include a stronger and more effective US military. A robust energy policy which is supportive of developments such as fracking. A commitment to technical and employment skills education. Etc. etc.

    In each of the areas such as the military they should select panels of potential advisors consisting of equally sound individual choices. That would probably provide the bulk of these 3000 who then are actually are the spark plugs of the administration.

    Possibly you and your associates can place together a group of your fellow dissidents in order to flesh out the various groups of advisors that can then fill the Trump pipeline with the people and the programs that will rescue the United States both domestically and internationally.

    if Trump wins then he will face the opposition of most Democrats and some Republicans. There is likelihood that the Republicans will maintain control of the Senate and of the house. This would place the Senate leadership in the house leadership in a bargaining position in regard to any White House initiatives. This is a much better position for the country and for the conservatives. Conversely in a Clinton White House conservatives would win nothing and probably lose from the positions that we , previously gained.

    5 Most of the criticisms of Donald Trump are correct… Most of the criticisms of Hillary Clinton are correct….So let us compare:

    (1) President Obama, in his endorsement of Hillary Clinton stated that she was in the war room which decided the operation against Bin Laden. Pres. Obama has showcased this operation as a hallmark of his administration. As part of his advertising blitz he revealed the specific personnel involved in this operation, making them and their families forever targets of the terrorists. Further, a key participant was Pakistani Dr. Shakil Afridi whose collection of DNA samples confirmed that the mysterious stranger who US intelligence suspected but could not identify was probably in fact Bin Ladin . The genius of the DNA operation was bragged about and the doctor was identified and arrested. For five years he has been imprisoned. He is a target of terrorists and probably will be murdered. The US “in the interest of good relations with Pakistan” has made few efforts to free this prisoner. The administration has stated explicitly that they are using their contacts with the Pakistani government to encourage the Pakistani government to encourage the Taliban to negotiate

    (2) Trump university has all the earmarks of a scam and has been widely criticized in the media. Several civil legal actions are underway. When they are completed we will know the extent, if any, that fraud has been committed.

    A more extensive university scandal has been taking place simultaneously. in this one Bill Clinton has pocketed more than $16 million in personal income and the State Department has made grants to associates the backers of the University of 55 million or so. If one googles Laureate or Walden in-line University will be several articles which will detail the accusations.(“In April 2015, Bill Clinton was forced to abruptly resign from his lucrative perch as honorary chancellor of Laureate Education, a for-profit college company. The reason for Clinton’s immediate departure: Bloomberg confirmed, that Laureate funneled Bill Clinton $16.46 million over five years while Hillary Clinton’s State Dept. pumped at least $55 million to a group run by Laureate’s founder and chairman, Douglas Becker, a man with strong ties to the Clinton Global Initiative. Laureate has donated between $1 million and $5 million -donations are reported in ranges, not exact amounts- to the Clinton Foundation. Progressive billionaire George Soros is also a Laureate financial backer.)

    (3) Donald Trump has been widely criticized for bigotry and insensitivity for his criticisms of Judge Gonzalo Curiel. just about everyone I know who knows Donald Trump personally swears that he is not a bigot. Trump’s remarks was stupid and inappropriate. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton in an emotional fit called Paul Fray, her husband’s campaign manager at the time, a “fucking Jew bastard”. {Paul Fray, Fray’s wife, Mary Lee and Neill McDonald, a campaign worker, are the three witnesses on whom Mr Oppenheimer relies for the passage in his book State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton.}

    (4 ) Donald Trump is accused of taking too long to disavow David Duke. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton has NEVER disavowed the statements made by Suha Arafat. In 1999 when Clinton visited Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat’s wife Suha publicly claimed that Israel was using poison gas to pollute the West Bank’s water and land. Hillary Clinton remained silent even though she was in possession of the translation of the remarks. Then at the conclusion Mrs. Clinton hugged and kissed Mrs. Arafat. This was widely seen throughout the Arab world as a US endorsement of these accusations.

    (5) Hillary Clinton, during her tenure as Secretary of State , played a very strong and direct role in initiating the US contacts with Iran’s hardliners to discuss recognizing Iran’s nuclear program. { This took place well before the time that the so-called moderates were elected in Iran .]She initiated the nuclear negotiations with Iranian hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad well before the election of Hassan Rouhani. As part the deal (which was publicly confirmed by John Kerry, Susan Rice and Barack Obama) , a substantial amount of the unfrozen Iranian resources would be devoted to attacks on Jews everywhere in the world.

    Hillary Clinton’ gave very strong support of the misleading efforts by the Obama administration to sell the “agreement” to the US public (partially by demonizing the very justified Israeli opposition to this “agreement”). [This was very much like Bill Clinton’s assurance to the American public that North Korea had fully given up its nuclear and ballistic missile programs… When in fact they had not.]

    Hillary selected Wendy Sherman , Nicholas Burns and the rest of the US State Department team that had originally negotiated the nuclear agreement with North Korea. This was the team that was retained by John Kerry. This is a video of of Bill Clinton claiming great victory in preventing North Korea from obtaining a nuclear weapon {thanks to the skill of Sherman, Burns and the rest of the US State Department team.} http://louderwithcrowder.com/flashback-bill-clintons-korea-speech-scary-close-to-obamas-iran-deal-speech/

    Clinton was key to the destabilizing of Libya and to the rise of ISIS there.

    (6) Relating to Hillary’s lobbyist donations the following is interesting documentation: “Meet the lobbyists, donors and bundlers behind Hillary Clinton’s $157 million juggernaut” by Michael Isikoff 2-4-16 {https://www.yahoo.com/politics/hillarys-financial-armada-233033648.html }

    (7) Relating to Hillary Clinton’s foundation Canadian venture the following is interesting documentation: The Clinton Foundation is “organized crime”
    at its finest. Here is a good, concise summary of how the Clinton Foundation works as a tax free international money laundering scheme. It may eventually prove to be the largest political criminal
    enterprise in U.S. history. This is a textbook case on how you hide foreign money sent to you and repackage it to be used for your own purposes. All tax free.

    Here’s how it works:
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    a. You create a separate foreign “charity.” In this case, the Clinton’s set it up in Canada.
    .
    b. Foreign oligarchs and governments, then donate to this Canadian charity. In this case, over 1,000 did –contributing mega millions. I’m sure they did this out of the goodness of
    their hearts, and expected nothing in return. (Imagine Putin’s buddies waking up one morning and just deciding to send untold millions to a Canadian charity). .

    c. The Canadian charity then bundles these separate donations and makes a massive donation to the Clinton Foundation.
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    d. The Clinton Foundation and the cooperating Canadian charity claim Canadian law prohibits the identification of individual donors.

    e. The Clinton Foundation then “spends” some of this money for legitimate good works programs. Unfortunately, experts believe this is on the order of 10%. Much of the balance goes to enrich the
    Clinton’s, pay salaries to untold numbers of hangers on, and fund lavish travel, etc. Again, virtually all tax free, which means you and I are subsidizing it. .

    f. The Clinton Foundation, with access to the world’s best accountants, somehow fails to report much of this on their tax filings. They discover these “clerical errors” and begin the process of
    re-filing 5 years of tax returns. .

    g. Net result — foreign money goes into the Clinton’s pockets tax free and untraceable back to the original donor. This is the textbook definition of money laundering.
    .

    The Canadian “charity” includes as a principal one Frank Giustra. Google him. He is the guy who was central to the formation of Uranium One, the Canadian company that somehow
    acquired massive U.S. uranium interests and then sold them to an organization controlled by Russia. This transaction required U.S. State Department approval, and guess who was Secretary of State when the approval was granted. .

    If you’re still not persuaded this was a cleverly structured way to get unidentified foreign money to the Clinton’s, ask yourself this: .

    Why did these foreign interests funnel money through a Canadian charity? Why not donate directly to the Clinton Foundation? Better yet, why not donate money directly to the people,
    organizations and countries in need? .

    This is the essence of money laundering and influence peddling… Now you know why Hillary’s destruction of 30,000 e-mails was a risk she was willing to take.

    There is much more on many subjects relating to Hillary Clinton’s that should help clarify the choice for anyone who is still in doubt. ( For example, the CIA and the FBI both believe that the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians had 100% visibility into all of Hillary Clinton’s communications. }

    6. RELATING TO DONALD TRUMP

    I am sure that the Democrats would rather face Donald Trump than nearly any other candidate.

    I have no illusions… There sufficient material for multiple negative columns.Let’s assume that all of the concerns that every Republican that you know has about Donald Trump are correct……

    Yes, Donald Trump is a narcissistic ConMan.Donald Trump is the equivalent of Prof. Harold Hill in music man. He is a con man who believes what he says when he says it. There have been various business deals in which he skinned trusting investors and trusting service providers.

    So is Barack Obama. Unfortunately, Hillary has the same very unfavorable personal traits that Trump has. It is just that Trump does it in public and Clinton does it behind closed doors for the most part. And Hillary’s economic piracy [example Russian acquisition of US uranium interests in Canada] are of a magnitude that is beyond imagination and makes Donald Trump look like a jaywalker (in terms of his violations) compared Hillary Clinton who is the equivalent of an economic mass ax murderer.